divinity

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force
noun the quality of being divine
noun white creamy fudge made with egg whites

From Old French divinité, from Latin divinitas. Composed of divine + -ity. Displaced native Old English godcundnes.

He’s probably a divinity student. — Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Talk of a divinity in man! — Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau
“Oh, very god!”: oh true divinity! — The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems, Geoffrey Chaucer

deity, god, immortal

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